The most important organization or social institution among Mexican Americans is
________.
a. the National Farm Workers Association
b. the hui kuan
c. the church
d. the family
Research has consistently shown that denominations can be arranged in a hierarchy
based on ________.
a. education
b. social class
c. country of origin
d. mother language
The Intifada was accomplished through ________.
a. the boycott of Arabic goods
b. rejection of all support from Arab nations
c. attacks against Israeli soldiers
d. peaceful talks and consensus
Taking school seriously and accepting the authority of teachers and administrators is a
characteristic of ________.
a. de facto segregation
b. acting White
c. de jure segregation
d. White privilege
Underemployment refers to working ________.
a. voluntarily on a part-time basis
b. voluntarily on a permanent basis
c. at a job for which one is overqualified
d. at a job for which one is underqualified
An immigrant group has access to better opportunities and comforts than it had in its
home country. However, in comparison with dominant groups in its present country, it
feels underprivileged. In this case, the immigrant group is experiencing ________.
a. relative deprivation
b. self-stereotyping
c. community cohesion
d. absolute deprivation
Jewish Americans who expressed that they should ignore the struggle of other Jews in
the Middle East did so because, according to them, ________.
a. Jews were freer in the United States than have been in perhaps any other country
b. major wars in the Middle East reminded the world of Israel’s vulnerability
c. Palestinian uprisings built strong pro-Israeli front among the Western powers
d. Jewish Americans were immigrating to Israel
The Sephardic Jews were originally from ________.
a. North Africa
b. Switzerland and Austria
c. Spain and Portugal
d. Sweden and Norway
Which of the following statements is true of the housing situation of African
Americans?
a. African Americans differ from Whites because their housing has been restricted
through discrimination.
b. The quality of Black housing is superior to that of Whites at all income levels.
c. Statistics has indicated that Black housing has deteriorated in recent years throughout
the United States.
d. African Americans pay a meagre proportion of their income for shelter.
The term ________ is reserved for minorities and the corresponding majorities that are
socially set apart because of obvious physical differences.
a. racial group
b. ethnic group
c. economic group
d. religious group
Immigrant youth as well as adults who maintain their ethnicity tend to have ________.
a. a higher incidence of truancy
b. a higher incidence of delinquency
c. more success as indicated by educational attainment
d. less success as indicated by health measures
Which of the following factors has contributed to the migration of Puerto Ricans to the
mainland United States?
a. the prevalence of crony capitalism in the mainland
b. the environmental degradation and desertification of the island
c. the absence of legal restrictions against travel to the mainland
d. the increasingly expensive air transportation in the island
In the 1920s, the United States instituted a national origins system of immigration that
was designed to block immigration from certain countries that included ________.
a. Italy
b. South America
c. the Caribbean
d. Mexico
Which of the following is true of the Afonso Arinos law?
a. The law was unanimously adopted.
b. The law prohibited physical abuse in public.
c. The law was useful in overturning even the subtle forms of discrimination.
d. The law came into existence after a push from South Africa.
Which of the following practices in schools, especially middle and high schools,
intensifies segregation at the classroom level?
a. tracking
b. redlining
c. racial profiling
d. assimilating
Which of the following statements is true of prejudice?
a. Prejudice involves attitudes, thoughts, beliefs, and actions.
b. Prejudice involves disliking a person because his or her behavior is objectionable.
c. Prejudice necessarily coincides with discriminatory behavior.
d. Prejudice occurs even if one has had little or no contact with a racial or ethnic group.
The federal government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics counts as unemployed people only
those
who ________.
a. are actively seeking employment
b. hold a full-time job and are seeking another job
c. have temporarily given up looking for employment
d. are being employed only intermittently
The lower salaries women earn over their lifetime because they have children is called
________.
a. occupational distancing
b. pay inequity
c. second shift
d. mommy tax
Reasons identified as contributing to residential segregation in the United States include
________.
a. prejudicial policies of real estate companies that steer people to the “correct”
neighborhoods
b. bank policies that create barriers based on class to finance home purchasing
c. court decisions that dismantle exclusionary housing practices
d. public housing policies that make it difficult to locate housing for the poor in
inner-city neighborhoods
Which of the following statements is true of American Muslims?
a. American Muslims seem to be closer to their fellow citizens than compared to their
global counterparts.
b. American Muslims believe that no religion apart from Islam can lead to eternal life.
c. American Muslims do not follow orthodox Muslim traditions under any
circumstances.
d. The Muslim population in the United States has shrunk drastically over time.
________ is the fear of and prejudice toward gays and lesbians.
a. Homophobia
b. Anti-Semitism
c. Sexism
d. Ethnocentrism
The use of two or more languages in places of work or educational facilities and the
treatment of each language as legitimate is known as ________.
a. bilingualism
b. language independence
c. dual-lingualism
d. linguistic profiling
Which of the following was rare in dealing with violations of slave codes?
a. branding
b. physical abuse
c. imprisonment
d. mutilation
Congress amended the American Indian Religious Freedom Act in 1994 to allow Native
Americans the right to ________.
a. perform the Ghost Dance in public places on religious occasions
b. possess and use peyote for religious purposes
c. reclaim Native remains by tribes with authentic claims
d. bury their dead on historically sacred tribal ground
Hiroto, a Japanese American living in Camp Harmony, Washington, was finally
released from the evacuation camp as a result of ________.
a. Japan’s surrender to the United States in 1945
b. the Supreme Court ruling in 1944
c. protests and demonstrations held by non-Japanese Americans
d. the urging of the League of Nations
The term “yellow peril” came to refer to the ________.
a. brain drain from China and India
b. diseases that wiped out huge numbers of Asian Americans
c. predominance of Asians in upper management
d. generalized prejudice toward Asians
Which of the following was condemned by Minister Louis Farrakhan?
a. bootstrap capitalism
b. abortion
c. strict punishment
d. self-help
Limiting immigration on the basis of a quota from each country was part of the
________.
a. Chinese Exclusion Act
b. Immigration and Nationality Act
c. national origin system
d. occupational segregation
Which of the following statements is true of Native American treatments?
a. They encourage patients to contribute to the healing benefits.
b. They are no longer in practice due to pressure on Native Americans to assimilate.
c. They tend to be invasive and recuperation is slow.
d. They were derived from White culture’s medicine.
In sociology, minority refers to the ________ group.
a. dominant
b. subordinate
c. ruling
d. sovereign
Which of the following statements is true of tribes that have opened casinos on
reservations?
a. The tribes do not pay taxes to local, state, or federal governments.
b. Nationwide, the economic and social impact of the revenue from casinos is limited.
c. Unemployment in the reservations has substantially increased despite the casinos.
d. On the reservations that benefit from gambling enterprises, the family income is
significantly higher than for the nation as a whole.
How was apartheid established in South Africa?
Explain the deficit model of ethnic identity in the context of Arab Americans. How well
does this model explain the ethnic experiences of these groups?
Categorize Japanese Americans according to the number of their generations living in
the United States.
Explain how Reform Judaism has altered Orthodox rituals.
The term ________ refers to cross-dressers who wear clothing of the opposite sex.
What is mommy tax? How does it affect working mothers in the United States?
Why hasn”t tourism been able to improve the tribal economy significantly?
Does American politics interest Muslim and Arab Americans? Do they favor a
particular political party? Is politics encouraged in Islam?
Describe the antislavery movement and its major goals. Why was racial equality not
necessarily on the agenda of the abolitionists?
The pattern of discrimination against people trying to buy homes in minority or racially
changing neighborhoods is called ________.
Why are many Americans challenged when asked to address the question, “Who am I?”
in terms of race and/or ethnicity?
Examine the possible reasons for the wartime evacuation of Japanese Americans.
What is ageism? Explain why the elderly can be an asset to an employer.
The term ________ is used to refer to Vietnamese living abroad.
Discuss racial profiling with appropriate examples.
Distinguish between the two major sects of followers of Islam.
________ describes the outcome of immigrants and their descendants moving in to
different classes of the host society.
Immigration often produces a(n) ________, which is the immigration of skilled
workers, professionals, and technicians to the United States from countries which are in
great need of professional workers.
Describe role of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.